Google should be dominating AI given their resources but has fallen behind

Google is clearly on the back foot in AI; it should, by rights, be dominating AI. They have the money, the data, the compute, and, for a long time, they had a gigantic lead in talent. Now (although I wouldn't count them out) they are widely viewed as having fallen behind.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/googles-biggest-mistake